Birdlover

I've been working on UFO's today and have nothing photo worthy to show you, so I dug this one out of the archives.  I didn't make it, my clever mother did.  My husband is very keen on birds of prey, and this is an Australian Wedge Tailed Eagle.  She gave it to him for his fortieth (a little while ago).

I think she's a smart cookie really.  I'm not sure I have that patience.

See you tomorrow.

The Quilt That Started It All

You know, the scary/sad (I can't quite decide) thing is that I'm sure I still have half a dozen more pastel quilts.  I do actually quilt other colours, too. 

This one was for my first daughter, and it was a Chook Shed design.  I'm sure it will be known to Aussie Quilters.  I've seen a lot of them.  She loves it.

And more pastels....

Love, love LOVE this one.  It came from my favourite book 'P.S. I Love You' by Possibilities.  It was template done, and I didn't think I could make it, and I totally did!  Now it needs handquilting and I'll try to get to that sometime before I'm ninety.

And even more pastels.....

I have two little girls.  I have a lot of pastel quilts.

But wait, there's more pastels....

Here's another pastel quilt...I admit that I did get new fabrics for this one but the scraps all went into that big bag full.

This one was made for my no. 2 little person.  Again it's a Chook Shed design.  Their patterns work so well for little people.  Her original design was a lot brighter, but I wanted cute and girly and fun and I think it totally worked, don't you?

S.

More Pastels

When my daughter was born, I cut a swag of pastel fabrics to make her a wall quilt. I kept all the bits of fabric that were left over in a bag.  It was a big bag, admittedly.  And I have just kept on making quilts from the leftover fabrics.  This is another one of the quilts I made from the same original fabrics.  It's amazing just how many quilts you can make from one bag of fabric. 

That would be a good challenge to have one day, wouldn't it?  A bag of fabric, and the winner is the person who can make the most projects from it.  With the least amount of leftover.

My bag is fairly empty now, and I have lots more quilts to show you that I made from it.  But this is just a little one, from a Chook Shed design.  I made many, many Chook Shed designs over the years.  I suspect a lot of us Aussies did.

More tomorrow,

Suzie

Show and Tell

I'm actually pretty proud of myself.  The things that blogging forces you to learn in relation to the computer is pretty terrific.  Till now, I've been taking photos, editing them in Picasa, saving them, writing a blog post, adding them in and then publishing the post.  Lots of steps and difficult at times. 

Turns out I can eliminate half of those steps by publishing a blog entry directly from Picasa.  The internet is clever.  Clever, clever internet.

So this is the quilt that I made for my daughter, that was supposed to have yesterday's block included in it.  But the maths got too hard with all those squares, and fitting that block in was like trying to fit a square peg in a round holl, so I just finished it off.  Her room is done in these pretty pastel colours (she's only little) and the box of leftovers is getting pretty grim now.  Which is a good thing, but I need to finish a few outstanding UFO's (like yesterday's) before the box runs out totally.

You can see I've taken her name off from the quilt.  I want her to make her own decisions about how much information is out there about her online, not me.  Hopefully it will be years before that decision needs to be made, because she is far too little to know about computers (though she totally knows how to play with the Ipad, let me tell you).

Tomorrow my other little person is at kindy so I will have a blissful child free morning.  I could use it to clean the bathroom, but more than likely I will get stuck into the UFO box.  Which means, hopefully another blog post to show you tomorrow night!

Till then, happy quilting.

S.

Sunday Funday

So today my DH (and I mean dear in the best sense of the word) took my two little people out for five (yes, FIVE!!) hours.  I love that man.  I sewed and cleaned and watched what I wanted to watch on television.  It was bliss.

I fished out this UFO:

I've a few other half appliqued blocks to add to it, and a few squares to cut out, and then hopefully soon I'll be able to cross that off my list also.  It was a block that was leftover from another quilt (it didn't really work where I wanted to put it) so I made more blocks to make a bigger quilt.  I could have just put this on the back of something but I tend to start new projects with leftover old ones.  I suppose that's part of my UFO problem.  Not knowing when to stop.

Anyhoo...

I had a productive day - I stitched a few folder covers and diary covers for a trading table our quilting group is holding, and I finished my paper bag challenge, which had a deadline of next month, so I'm doing well!  The covers looked very boring in the photos, so I won't show them off.  I couldn't find a tutorial online that covered exactly what I wanted to do, so I made them my own way and I'm actually quite pleased with them. 

So all in all, I'm feeling refreshed, accomplished, and I'm ready to hit Monday morning running!

Till tomorrow,

Suzie

Scrappy fun..

Don't you hate days when technology doesn't do what it's supposed to?   A few weeks ago I was very clever and put my own Farmer's Wife Sampler chart from Electric Quilt into this webpage.  I had to save it as a jpg and it was all really smart of me, because I'm not the cleverest person on the internet.  

Now I don't know how to do it.  It's gone from the memory banks.

Which makes the above picture pretty uninteresting really, because the whole point of this post was to show you that I drew a block in EQ6, and then made it in real life, and aren't I clever....except I aren't.  I can't work out how to stick the EQ6 block online.  

So trust me, not so clever.  I'll keep looking online.  I know I saw it someplace.  The internet isn't *that* big a place, I'm sure I can find it.  Oh yeah.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend, see you tomorrow!

When life gets in the way

Life has a habit here of sneaking up on you and tapping you on the shoulder, then when you turn around, it slaps you in the face.  Just to remind you that there is actually other things than quilting.

I have some little people.  One has been sick, and now as she returns to health, the other is getting sick.  Both are Very. Crabby.  Indeed.  Consequently, not much at all has been done in the quilting/crafting/anything fun department.  And to top it all off I've lost the digital camera so I can't take any photos of anything right now (which makes me very, very cross).

I'm aware I've promised block of the month details, and they are definitely nearly ready. 

But for now, here's a picture of something I did a year or two ago.  Just for some eye candy.  Wayyyyy much louder than I thought it would be, which is why it's only a table runner and not some a whole quilt.

Till tomorrow,

S.